PSYCH 1100 : Review Sheet 2-pxy filled.doc

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Relationships with significant others in childhood (caregivers) lead to interpersonal styles of relating (this is an unconscious process) Needs not met basic anxiety basic hostility basic conflict use of one orientation exclusively (not flexible) Basic anxiety feeling helpless and isolated in a threatening world. Basic hostility feelings of anger due to inadequate care and neglect. Basic conflict why underlies neurosis, child needs parents but are mad at them. Non-flexible in interpersonal orientation unhealthy, needs were not met. Self-expansive they seek mastery and dominance over others: seek power/control over others, aggressive, competitive, manipulative, seek recognition, admiration, want to be the best at everything, culture pressures men to adapt this style. Resignation solution they have a need for privacy: withdrawn from others and relationships, rigidly independent, self-sufficient, need for routine and orderliness, hypersensitive to failure, criticism, culture pressures men to adapt this style. Know and understand the major and secondary adjustments to basic anxiety.